“Before our palace stands a mirror, the ascent to which consists of five and twenty steps of porpyry and serpentine … This mirror is guarded day and night by three thousand men. We look therein and behold all that is taking place in every province and region subject to our sceptre.” The Letter of Prester John 1165

The matter of design fiction – the science of the artificial – the actualising of artefacts from the future. Designing the architecture fictions of other dimensions and eccentric spaces. Designing the sonic fictions of sound-houses, sound-sweeps, and sound-objects. Designing the property of cognitive estrangement, unevenly distributed across a speculative ‘science’ – ‘fiction’ spectrum.